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Klara Banaszak's avatar

I cannot believe what I have just read. I cannot believe you are quoting Hitler and saying he was right to have such sickening views about race and multiculturalism in America. This piece is vile, the perspective you advocate is reprehensible, the sweeping generalisations and vilification of whole groups of people - and the elevation of others - on the basis of skin colour and religion are spurious. It is a travesty that you feel emboldened to publish this and even more that several commentators agree with you. White supremacy is not a virtue, nor a tenable position, nor a thing to declaim or be proud of. It is the wrong side of history. It is just wrong

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KaiteeO's avatar

In my last semester in college I shared a house with two other women, one was black. We all attended the same university. The black girl was studying black studies on a scholarship, all of her friends were black, she was dating a married, black college professor, and she told me on our first meeting that “you white people owe me”. She had the largest bedroom with an attached bath at the back of the house across from my room. This was in winter during the first “energy crisis“ and the cost of energy had shot up pretty high. We, the other girl, and I, tried to conserve energy in order to keep our bills down. We divided everything in thirds equally. The roommate across the hall would come in late most nights and would turn the heat up in the house as high as it would go before she went to bed. She liked to sleep nude with only a sheet and be comfortable was her excuse when asked. I would wake up at about two or three in the morning unable to breathe, it was so hot. One weekend we all were gone and found upon our return that the heat had been pegged to max the entire time we were gone. No apologies.

Her and her friends’ other favorite activity was to go to restaurants as a group, order everything they felt like eating off the menu, and then walk out on the check. They did that regularly. There were no repercussions that I ever saw. I worked at a restaurant in order to get through school and I told her if she ever showed up in my restaurant, I would lead the sheriff straight to her bedroom door.

Entitlement? I lived across the hall from it. I understand where it originated. It is ugly.

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